Anthony Lawson: Sex, Lies, Iran, Israel and WikiLeaks 

Monday, December 13, 2010 at 8:58AM Gilad Atzmon

I, for a change, do not fully agree with Anthony Lawson
I think that Wikileaks is a crucial development
If anything, it exposes the enemies of peace
Our Ziomedia is indeed obsessed with Iran
However,  Lawson  knows how to tell a story

Gilad
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Brother Gilad
People are divided on Wikileaks, I am posting both oponions, but I am still inclined to believe the Israel stand behind the leaks.

I found this Latin times article at the well known Palestinian Idiot Hasbara site, and he is using as a sign of imagined Hezbollah's "breaking with the official stance of the group's patron, Iran, that the leaked diplomatic cables are part of some American and Israeli-backed conspiracy."


"Good for Hezbollah !!" the Idiot said. and "excellent for Hezbullah" he may say if Hezbullah break with Syria, such break would pave the way to destroy Hezbollah for ever.


"By supporting WikiLeaks, Nasrallah now finds himself in the same camp as an unlikely figure: Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, who said in comments published Saturday that the documents expose Iran's "vulnerability." Latin Times claimed putting Nasrallah and Mir Hossein Mousavi on the same page

Yes Nasrallah said "that the party would be targeted by greater conspiracies than the plots unveiled by the cables released by whistleblower WikiLeaks." Although the Lebanese emerged victorious, many people lost their lives and "faced big threats and conspiracies," Sayyed Nasrallah said, referring to the principle of overcoming all obstacles. "We are seeing this in WikiLeaks day after day and we will see greater plots."



I listened to directly speaking in Arabic my mother tongue, and he didn't say that he support Wikileaks, he did't talk about who stand behind the leaks, the man taked about the conspiraces he faced, and told his people, that the consiracies he taked about all the time are confirmed by what leaked so far.

Under the title:  WikiLeaks “Struck a Deal” to Keep Away Anything Damaging to Israel
Almanar yesterday Dec 13 revealed the following:

• A number of commentators, ....have been wondering why the hundreds of thousands of American classified documents leaked by the website last month did not contain anything that may embarrass the Israeli government, like just about every other state referred to in the documents.
• The answer appears to be a secret deal struck between the WikiLeaks “heart and soul”, as Assange humbly described himself once, with Israeli officials, which ensured that all such documents were 'removed' before the rest were made public ...
• According to an Arabic investigative journalism website Syriatruth, Assange had received money from semi-official Israeli sources and promised them, in a “secret, video-recorded agreement,” not to publish any document that may harm Israeli security or diplomatic interests.
• The sources of the Al-Haqiqa report are said to be former WikiLeaks volunteers who have left the organisation in the last few months over Assange's “autocratic leadership” and “lack of transparency.”
• In a recent interview with the German daily Die Tageszeitung, former WikiLeaks spokesperson Daniel Domscheit-Berg said he and other WikiLeaks dissidents are planning to launch their own whistleblowers' platform to fulfil WikiLeaks's original aim of “limitless file sharing.”
• According to the Al-Haqiqa sources, Assange met with Israeli officials in Geneva earlier this year and struck the secret deal. The Israel government, it seems, had somehow found out or expected that the documents to be leaked contained a large number of documents about the Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Gaza in 2006 and 2008-9 respectively. These documents, which are said to have originated mainly from the Israeli embassies in Tel Aviv and Beirut, were removed and possibly destroyed by Assange, who is the only person who knows the password that can open these documents, the sources added.
• Following the leak (and even before), Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a press conference that Israel had “worked in advance” to limit any damage from leaks, adding that “no classified Israeli material was exposed by WikiLeaks.” In an interview with the Time magazine around the same time, Assange praised Netanyahu as a hero of transparency and openness!
• According to another report published on Syriatruth website, a left-leaning Lebanese newspaper had met with Assange twice and tried to negotiate a deal with him, offering “a big amount of money”, in order to get hold of documents concerning the 2006 war, particularly the minutes of a meeting held at the American embassy in Beirut on 24th July 2006, which is widely considered as a 'war council' meeting between American, Israeli and Lebanese parties that played a role in the war. The documents the Al-Akhbar editors received, however, all date to 2008 onwards and do not contain “anything of value,” the sources confirm. This only goes to support the Israel deal allegations.
• Finally, it might be worth pointing out that Assange might have done what he is alleged to have done in order to protect himself and ensure that the leaked documents are published so as to expose the American hypocrisy, which he is said to be obsessed with “at the expense of more fundamental aims”.

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LEBANON: Hezbollah strays from Iranian line on WikiLeaks, praises its disclosures

Good for Hezbollah !!

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah appears to have acknowledged the credibility of WikiLeaks, breaking with the official stance of the group's patron, Iran, that the leaked diplomatic cables are part of some American and Israeli-backed conspiracy.

By supporting WikiLeaks, Nasrallah now finds himself in the same camp as an unlikely figure: Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, who said in comments published Saturday that the documents expose Iran's "vulnerability."

In a speech late Friday night, the Hezbollah leader said the resistance would be targeted by conspiracies even greater than those already revealed in the leaked United States diplomatic cables, hinting mysteriously at more to come.

During the July 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, the party and its supporters "faced serious threats and conspiracies" from many sides, Nasrallah said, adding: "This is what we see in WikiLeaks day after day, and which we will see on a greater [scale]" (Arabic link).

Was Nasrallah's ominious prediction a rhetorical flourish, or does he have knowledge of sensitive cables on Lebanon that have yet to be published?

Some figures at the leftist Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar, which obtained advance copies of some cables, are said to be close to Hezbollah, but the paper already appears to have published all the documents in its possession.

It is more likely Hezbollah simply couldn't pass up the opportunity to capitalize on the exposure of its political rivals in some of the WikiLeaks documents, even if it meant coming out in support of the watchdog site after Iranian officials had publicly dismissed it as a "Zionist plot."

The leaked cables quoted several Lebanese politicians, including the defense minister and former telecommunications minister, passing sensitive information about Hezbollah's telecommunications networks and military strongholds to American officials.

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